End of Year Bumper Edition Contents:
Yesterday’s Rout
2017 Year in Review
Younger People’s compassion and tax problem
Around the Grounds
Scotch College’s curious auction strategy
Emotion v $ when deciding on a home
Transparency
The “Reserve” malaise widens
Ralph Carr and Dustin Martin
Thank you’s
2017 – Top 5 Reads at James Market News
Next Edition
It’s never as good as it seems and it’s never as bad as it [...]

Spring Summary: To say the market is as strong as six months ago, or this time last year, would be a wrong call.
As an across the board statement, it would be the wrong call, to state or assume the overall Inner Melbourne Family Home market is definitely on the way down, as there is still no [...]

1. Be Picky – Correct Assessment and Positioning is unforgiving and crucial
We assess 30 to a 100 homes every week – we buy 2.
Initial James Home Rating typical for an EOI – 23 Hill Street Toorak
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2. Its crucial to get the full offering
4 times more homes over $4,000,000 are bought outside the auction hammer [...]

G’day and welcome back to James Market News. Hope you all had a break from the Melbourne winter!
My break was with my youngest daughter, Maddie, in the Top End at Fitzroy Crossing, Kakadu and Kooljaman, Cape Leveque. Aboriginal people know a lot more about land and its value than many of us “new migrants”.
Hard to believe it’s been [...]

NOTE 17.6.17: This article was confirmed and published 3.6.17. Withdrawn 6.6.17 when we became aware of new information and remained so until 17.6.17 when we republished with new information.
This story is now different from the original article published in good faith, however a lot of the gist of it remains true – except that the winning bidder of [...]

Ferocious bidding on the right homes – despite this being the largest auction start to a year in Melbourne auction history – the market lapped it up, spat out a few and said ”feed me, feed me, give me more.”
At 6.00 pm the James Clearance Rate on Inner Melbourne Homes was close enough to 90% – yep [...]

INTRODUCTION
If I told you buying a home at the Top End is more about trust than money, would you believe me?
Maybe, maybe not.
Well this is a story about 3 homes involving strategy, dealmaking and truths at the Top of the Top End.
Towers Road, Toorak (Marcus Chiminello)
Bought 2016: James Home Rating 942/1000
Kooyongkoot Road, Hawthorn (Ross Savas / Jeremy [...]

Beautiful Decisions – Buy/Sell
Welcome to our final series for the year – over the next three weeks we will try to highlight just how much is added to your life with beautiful decisions.
This final 2016 series is about getting the most out of buying and selling a home via a beautiful decision.
We are splitting the series [...]

Welcome to our 2016 Bumper Christmas Edition.
In this, our last article for 2016 – the key to good sex, nothing about that American bloke and a segment on how to get $70,000 for free every year.
Plenty of positives, but apologies we don’t seem to have any fake news!
And to the Inner Melbourne Market.
Wow, what a finish [...]

Its 6.00pm Saturday and the James Clearance rate for $M+ Inner Melbourne is 88% on the 26 Auctions we covered today.
James Bidderman, that is, bidders per auction, is 2.8.
Super Strong.
Big numbers of bought befores and look at the Volcanoes 48%. That means every second auction had 4 or more bidders and how about this; there were 15 bidders [...]

Its 6.00pm Saturday and the James Clearance rate for $M+ Inner Melbourne was 74% on the 23 Auctions we covered today – solid.
James Bidderman, that is bidders per auction, was 2.3 bidders per auction – also a solid number.
Interesting to note the spread across the board, at the Top End, was fairly even between ducks/lone rangers, norms and [...]

Buyer Testimonial

Craig knew that we had the deal team to make this decision. . Dear James,
I am in utter amazement at the manner in which your team executed this process. Brenda and I keep going over the boardroom auction experience and your every move was calculated and definitive. That final $10k just blew the other bidder out of the water.
I just looked at you and nodded and the next thing we had it! The support given by you was imm...